Avoid oversleeping

Summary

• After we get our required sleep, sleeping any more apparently doesn't deliver any benefits

Details

• Sometimes our body is fighting off an infection or recovering from some strenous activity, we will not consider this oversleeping.
• Oversleeping can have detrimental effects: lowered immunity, poor mental health, and other potentially chronic diseases

References

• 365 Days with Self-Discipline - Martin Meadows
• sleep foundation

Quotes

• The second suggestion is simple: avoid oversleeping. As long as you don’t need more sleep to recover from a difficult workout, illness, or any other similar situation, sleeping too much doesn’t deliver any benefits and, according to scientific research, might even hurt (in one study, sleeping too much was associated with psychiatric diseases and higher body mass index303).

Related

• Sleep is good for you
• Sleep and poetry - John Keats
• Sleep is vital for memory consolidation